NBCLA Live-Tweeting Events Leading Up to LA Riots

A local TV station has come up with a provocative way to mark the 20th anniversary of the calamitous events sparked by the announcement of a not-guilty verdict for four LAPD officers involved in the beating of Rodney King.

The only contextual element missing @RealTimeLARiots (so far) is mention of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins. Her shooting death in 1991 in a Korean market two weeks after the King beating – and subsequent probation sentence for the shooter – helped inflame anger in the neighborhoods that erupted on April 29, 1992.